Improving the quality and safety of perioperative care is a global priority. The Enhanced Peri-Operative Care for High-risk patients (EPOCH) trial was a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial of a quality improvement (QI) programme to improve 90-day survival for patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in 93 hospitals in the UK National Health Service.

Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial)

Cecconi M;
2018-01-01

Abstract

Improving the quality and safety of perioperative care is a global priority. The Enhanced Peri-Operative Care for High-risk patients (EPOCH) trial was a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial of a quality improvement (QI) programme to improve 90-day survival for patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in 93 hospitals in the UK National Health Service.
2018
Complex interventions
Emergency surgery
Evaluation
Quality improvement
Critical Pathways
Group Processes
Humans
Inservice Training
Laparotomy
Length of Stay
Patient Care Team
Patient Readmission
Perioperative Care
Program Evaluation
Quality Improvement
State Medicine
United Kingdom
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